Thursday, 1 December 2016

So who doesnt remember Mike Wazowski from Monster's Inc. A one eyed green spherical monster that everyone liked for being the best bud to Sulley. Dance Legend made a collection of duochrome polishes on these monsters and each is certainly desirable as the other.

Friday, 11 November 2016

Did this one a while back..have a small backlog of manis to post from around September.

Then I got busy with packing for my trip and then the actual trip as around 2 weeks..then once i cme back there was a mountain load of clothes and household work to catch up on. So now u know where I was busy. Slowly trying to catch up on posting stuff here and getting things back to normal.

Thanks for sticking with me so far!

I instantly fell in love with moyou african plates when they released and grabbed them in their September offer. I always resisted buying moyou plates but the offer was too good to resist.

BP-X05 (item #29978; link) is part of their newly released plate this year. It has tribal type patterns in big sizes which will cover long and broad nails completely. The patterns stamp crisp and clear. I like this plate as you can also fill in colours and make very colourful decals like I did.

I like these type patterns that are spaced out a bit and the base also show through. As with always I find born pretty plates good in quality and this comes with a thick sticker backing. Images are well etched and come out good.

This plate retails for $1.99 which is fairly nice and affordable price.

Saturday, 30 July 2016

Sometimes when it turns out right with Nail Vinyls I really like the result.

Base: Krizia Into the Blu (took ages to dry)

Vinyls: Twinkled-T Cyclone Variety Pack

Sally Hansen Dri-Fast Silver Sweep

Pointer and pinky finger freehanded with SH silver sweep

Here's a swatch of Krizia Into The Blu.

It took ages to dry..I bumped a nail after an hour and it still made a bad dent. It might be the humid weather here says the maker of krizia so we'll see how it goes post the monsoons here. Its a pretty blue with holo glitter but not as holo as I expected. Goes opaque in 2 coats.

Tuesday, 28 June 2016

Its a very bright pink shade leaning towards purple..and looks almost neon-nish. It stamps very nicely on both light and dark shades. Easy to pick up and stamp too.

I wanted to try a very different combination to see how it would show up on a lighter base and this mani turned out better than I expected. The base shines through well and the stamping is crisp enough to make out a lacey design.

Sunday, 26 June 2016

Most of last year I waited to lay my hands on some clear jelly stamper as it was touted to be one of the most revolutionary inventions of a stampaholic's life. Everyone went gaga over how logically simple solution this was for all the placement woes. I waited for long time as I didnt want to order a very expensive one and pay loads of shipping from big brands as most of my packages get stolen or lost in our postal system. And Born pretty store came to my rescue! They launched one of their own at a very affordable rate of $2.99. (link) (item # 24059)

This is how it looks with a translucent cylindrical body and diameter of around 2.8cms. They also have another variant in the purple handle. The stamper head is soft but not too squishy. and its really clear so you can see exactly where you want to place your design.

I had a little trouble picking up the designs at first till a friend told me that I need to wash it with soap water. Thereafter it started working nicely. I somehow found that it tends to pick up better when I roll over the images and not when I stamp on it to pick up. I also found that its a little tricky to work with fast drying polishes like the Essence Stampy polish in black. It worked well with konad black and with other BPS stamping polishes. I am yet to try tihs with mdu stamping polishes.

See below a few of the images I picked up using this stamper.

It makes my life so much easy. No more issues of alignment or placement of images. You can exactly stamp as you want.

This is the mani I did using this stamper with the above image from BPL-028 Stamping plate.

Here are a few more images using this stamper:

here's another

This stamper comes with a translucent scraper (as below). Its handy if you want to carry it around but I find I am better used to scraping using an old plastic card.

About Me

Hi, I am a nail art enthusiast and looove nail polish. I am from Mumbai, India. This is my diary to the nail designs I do. I would love to see your comments. If you like what you see, please follow. You can contact me via Email: nailartandthings (at) gmail (dot) com or comment on this blog and I will reply to them